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TIL that Major League Baseball Player Moe Berg was recruited by American Intelligence to assassinate Werner Von Heisenberg during WWII

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b9V7N TIL about Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family. She hid them in the Secret Annex for 25 months until they were found by the Gestapo. She survived because the officer who found her felt bad, but sent the others to the camps. She later gave Otto Frank Anne's diary and died in 2010.
yVPrM TIL the U.S. Pizza Team competes in four skills: largest dough stretch, fastest pizza maker, freestyle acrobatics, and fastest box folding.
eWZJ TIL the mechanism behind night vision isn’t the dilation of our pupils, it’s actually a pigment known as Rhodopsin. It gets destroyed by light and takes the eye 45 minutes to replenish.
Lkv6V TIL Ron Howard only accepted a role in the pilot of the show of Happy Days to avoid the Vietnam War draft. According to Howard, he had a horrible draft number (41 or 42), and, because the government wasn't accepting college deferment anymore he needed a work deferment.
V8gm TIL that the Spanish flu killed more people than both world wars combined